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David L. Pike, "Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0801472563, 080144277X | PDF | pages: 376 | 131.6 mb
The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In Subterranean Cities, David L. Pike explores the representation of underground space in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period during which technology and heavy industry transformed urban life.

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Nicole Polizzi, "Strong Is the New Sexy: My Kickass Story on Getting My "Formula for Fierce""
English | ISBN: 0762458712 | 2015 | 256 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A number of years ago, most people thought Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi was destined for either rehab or prison. When she rose to stardom on the MTV breakout series, Jersey Shore, she was twenty pounds overweight from her steady diet of nachos and alcohol. Today, not only is she a mother of two, but she's as fit and trim as she's ever been. She's married to the love of her life and father to her children, but most importantly, she's strong both in her body and sheer determination. In short, she's got her life together and now shares with her fans how she's transformed both her body and mindset - and shows how they can do it too! In

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Strong Female Character by Hanna Flint
2023 | ISBN: 1804440000 | English | 271 pages | EPUB | 0.5 MB
Leading film critic of her generation offers an unflinchingly honest and humorous account of her millennial journey towards self-acceptance through a cinematic lens.

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Stress Free Kids: A Parent's Guide to Helping Build Self-Esteem, Manage Stress, and Reduce Anxiety in Children By Lori Lite
2013 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1440567514 | EPUB | 1 MB
Stress management solutions for you and your children!Kids today are more stressed, overwhelmed, and struggling with anxiety than ever before. Children are not born with the coping strategies needed to navigate today's increasing demands of technology, bullying, academics, and family dynamics. You yourself might wonder how your own stressed-out lifestyle is affecting your children. Based on Lori Lite's award-winning series, Stress Free Kids provides relaxation techniques you can use to free your child from stress.Lite shows you how to apply breathing, visualizations, affirmations, and muscle relaxation exercises effortlessly throughout the day. These parenting solutions to everyday stressors will reduce worries and anxiety while increasing self-esteem. You and your children will gain freedom as you live a more joy-filled life with less stress.With this complete resource as your guide, your family will create your own collection of stress-free moments that add up to peace and confidence--for you and your children.

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Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious By Timothy D. Wilson
2002 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 0674009363 | EPUB | 1 MB
Know thyself, a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgements, feelings and motives that introspection may never show us.

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Stopping: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going By David Kundtz
1998 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 1573241091 | EPUB | 1 MB
Stopping is a simple, straightforward technique for "doing nothing, as much as possible, for a definite period of time, with the purpose of becoming more awake and remembering who you are," so that you can live more purposefully and peacefully.

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Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan By Donald S. Sutton
2003 | 418 Pages | ISBN: 0674010973 | PDF | 118 MB
Despite Taiwan's rise as an economic force in the world, modernity has not led to a Weberian process of disenchantment or curbed religiosity. To the contrary, other factors--social, economic, political--have stimulated religion. How and why this has happened are central issues in this book.One part of Taiwan's flourishing religious culture is the elaborate and colorful procession of local gods accompanied by troupes of musicians and dancers. Among them are performers with outlandishly painted faces portraying underworld generals who serve the gods and punish the living. Through their performances, these troupes claim to exorcise harmful forces from the community.In conducting fieldwork among these troupes, Donald Sutton confronted their claims to a long history--when all evidence indicated that the troupes had been insignificant until the 1970s--and their assertions of devotion to tradition given the diversity of performances. Concentrating on the stylistic variations in performances, the author describes the troupes as organizations shaped by the market forces of supply and demand in the culture of religious festivals. By focusing on performances as the nexus of market and art, he shows how bodily performance is the site where religious statements are made and the power of the gods made visible.

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Shilo Harris, K. Michael Conaway, "Steel Will: My Journey through Hell to Become the Man I Was Meant to Be"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 080101655X, 0801018889 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 12.9 mb
On February 19, 2007, SSG Shilo Harris was patrolling an infamous southern Iraqi roadway when his Humvee was struck by an IED. Moments later, three members of his crew were dead and Shilo had sustained severe burns over 35 percent of his body, lost his ears and the skin off his face, and lost much of the use of his badly mangled fingers. This fiery moment was just the beginning of an arduous road laced with pain, emotional anguish, and much soul-searching. For forty-eight days Shilo lay trapped in a medically induced coma as his wife, unable to ease his suffering, had to come to grips with a man utterly changed.

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Steady, Calm, and Brave
by Brown, Kimberly;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1633888215 | 173 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.47 MB

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Jefferson R. Cowie, "Stayin Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1595587071, 1565848756 | PDF | pages: 485 | 4.7 mb
A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive book―part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film and television lore―Cowie, with "an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), reveals America's fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.

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